Parking Attendants

SOC Code: 53-6021

Parking Attendantss take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles. This career typically requires moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year). With an AI-proof score of 82.1/100, this role has high resilience to automation. Key skills include Speaking, Service Orientation, Active Listening.

AI-Proof Score: 82.1 — Very High
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Median Salary

$34,600

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Job Growth

3.0%

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Training Time

Moderate-term on-the-job training (months to 1 year)

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Job Zone

Zone 2 / 5

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Training Cost

~$5,000

Key Skills

  • •Speaking
  • •Service Orientation
  • •Active Listening
  • •Social Perceptiveness
  • •Critical Thinking
  • •Monitoring
  • •Mathematics
  • •Writing

Common Tasks

  • ✓Take numbered tags from customers, locate vehicles, and deliver vehicles, or provide customers with instructions for locating vehicles.
  • ✓Inspect vehicles to detect any damage.
  • ✓Greet customers and open their car doors.
  • ✓Issue ticket stubs or place numbered tags on windshields, log tags or attach tag to customers' keys, and give customers matching tags for locating parked vehicles.
  • ✓Perform cash handling tasks, such as making change, balancing and recording cash drawer, or distributing tips.

Why AI-Proof?

  • ✅Requires hands-on physical presence and dexterity
  • ✅Demands human empathy, judgment, and trust
  • ✅Operates in unpredictable, variable environments
  • ✅Social and regulatory barriers to full automation